Five Minute Briefing - March 25, 2015

NEWS FLASHES

Most organizations, whether public or private sector, are facing exponential increases in the amount of information and data that they need to continuously track, manage, and protect to ensure organizational success, continuity of operations and long-term viability. While many attackers still focus on denial of service attacks, cybercriminals often target the database because that is where sensitive information resides that would interest someone looking to steal credit card information or personal identities

Oracle has launched three new cloud services accelerators for enterprise project portfolio management (EPPM) in the financial services, public sector, and engineering and construction industries. The purpose-built accelerators are aimed at enabling organizations to address the challenges associated with managing project, program, portfolio, and contract lifecycles in their respective industries.

ScaleArc, a provider of database load balancing software, has announced support for automatic cache invalidation, providing a transparent ACID-compliant caching mechanism for dynamic data. The ScaleArc software tracks data changes to invalidate a cache entry, ensuring that outdated data is not served for Oracle and MySQL, as well as SQL Server database environments.

THINK ABOUT IT

I woke up early to get to the airport to ensure a timely check-in. When I got to the desk, the airline representative asked for my name and destination, keyed it in and we waited for the system to respond. The next words out of her mouth were, "Sorry, the system is slow today, you know how it is."

IOUG joined the Data Summit 2015 as an official conference partner to offer the most comprehensive conference on information management and Big Data for technology and database professionals. The IOUG Track at the Data Summit focuses on Big Data in the Cloud and the evolution of the data warehouse.

Register for COLLABORATE 15 - IOUG Forum to experience five days with over 1,250 education sessions across 16 education tracks and the opportunity to connect with over 5,500 fellow Oracle technologists and professionals.